0 an official complaint, made by a person or company in a law court against another person who is said to have done something to harm them, that is dealt with by a judge:
So where a man enters special bail for the appearance of a defendant in a civil action, he may seize his person.
It was an important characteristic of this body of law that while the employer could be subjected to civil action for any breach, the worker was liable to penal sanctions.
The alternative would be civil action for damages.
I am proposing that this matter should be dealt with by way of a civil action.
Discretionary social fund overpayments are often relatively small sums, and civil action is not always cost-effective.
Alternatively, any one of them is at liberty to bring a civil action.
It took away from the civil action all remedy, if the words were proved to be true.
Nobody would want to take legal proceedings even on a civil action without good legal advice, but that is one possible source of remedy.
